Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiversity

Re:Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiv... by Ekaros on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:15AM (#37390639)

I'm always surprised that people think farming isn't like any other industry in capitalism. They will aim to make as much profit with resources they have available.

If doing farming differently would certainly net more, they would do it. So I take there is some component that is forgotten. Be it scaling, labour input or available market for higher priced products.

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Re:Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiv... by spiderfarmer on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:20AM (#37390686)

In a lot of countries people still think farmers are stupid. Because of that a lot people think that even amateurs can do a better job, as long as they are not a traditional farmer.

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Re:Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiv... by myshpa on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:27AM (#37390746)

Ernst Gotsch and Masanobu Fukuoka are not amateurs ... they both have been farming for decades.

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Re:Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiv... by Lutger on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @10:19AM (#37392000)

Are you saying people like Shepard, Fukuoka and Götsch are amateurs? Do you even know who these people are?

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Re:Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiv... by lowkeyoptimist on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @03:06PM (#37396271)

They said nothing of the sort. People in here are passing this method of farming off as a settled fact that it is better, when even Gotsch says it is still experimental and admits using fertilizer would boost yields of wheat, soy, and maize. Dropping yields of some of these key crops in the world's calorie consumption nearly 30% would be devastating to countries that depend on imports.

https://agendagotsch.com/en/large-scale-syntropic-farming-re...

World's most important sources of calories: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-important-staple-fo...

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Re:Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiv... by randomdata on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @09:19AM (#37391241)

> I'm always surprised that people think farming isn't like any other industry in capitalism.

The probably don't see farming as being like capitalism because farming is, with some exceptions, mostly socialist in nature – the workers own the means of production.

> They will aim to make as much profit with resources they have available.

That is certainly true, although not a feature of capitalism. Wanting something in return for offering something to another transcends capital ownership structures.

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Re:Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiv... by helpfulContrib on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @09:15AM (#37404652)

Farming is not just a for-profit industry, or at least - not always a mass-scale profit industry.

Maintaining ones own - or community - garden is a fantastic way to just improve the quality of your own life, and the life of others around you.

That's a different kind of profit.

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